Academic Data Mobility
People Responsible
Victoriano Giralt, University of Malaga.
Aim of this work item
The "Bologna Process" has been one of the main drivers of middleware cooperation in the European academic networking space since its signing in 1999. The promise of a seamless IT infrastructure to facilitate faculty and student mobility across European higher-education institutions has been behind many of these efforts, from data schema harmonization (like SCHAC) to identity federation interoperability (such as eduGAIN). The maturity of identity federations, middleware and campus IT infrastructures makes this promise achievable in production environments. This work-item will track the evolution of homegrown, consortia and vendor systems for campus management information systems (MIS), focusing on data aggregation and mobility between compatible and competing MIS systems.
The goal of this work-item will be to strengthen the already existing technical liaisons with initiatives like RS3G (in EUNIS) and DSDP (in EAIE), assessing the application of TF-EMC2 results in their efforts, as well as making these results adapt to requirements from this application area.